Ted Cruz drops out of Republican White House race

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz drops out of his party's race for the White House after losing the Indiana primary to front-runner Donald Trump. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

▲ Hide Transcript

▶ View Transcript

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)
STORY: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz on Tuesday (May 3) dropped out of his party's race for the White House after losing the Indiana primary to front-runner Donald Trump.
Trump scored an important victory over rival Cruz in Indiana, a win that would appear to make him unstoppable in his march to the party's presidential nomination.
Even before Cruz's announcement there was an air of resignation among some of his supporters at Cruz's evening event in Indianapolis.
The loss for Cruz was a sour ending to a rough day in which he got entangled in a harsh back-and-forth with Trump.
It began when the billionaire repeated a claim published by the tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer that linked Cruz's father, Cuban emigre Rafael Cruz, with President John F. Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. Learn more about Thomson Reuters products: